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100 Themes for NaNo 09

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1. 5 Points
2. A Breather
3. Alive and Kicking
4. All Dolled Up
5. Anywhere but Here
6. Bottom of the Barrel
7. Busted Up Ride
8. Butterfly
9. Caffeine
10. Canary
11. Carousel
12. Celebrity
13. Chocolate
14. Close
15. Clouds
16. Coffee Mugs
17. Credit
18. Cutoff
19. Dark Thoughts
20. Decadent
21. Down But Not Out
22. Down Time
23. Drool
24. Embarrassing
25. Empty Plate
26. Fail
27. Fallen
28. Fizzy Drinks
29. Fog
30. Fragile
31. Gearwheel
32. Glass
33. Gloom
34. Got a Light?
35. Grief
36. Gross
37. Hardball
38. Headaches
39. Hey There
40. Hit the Wall
41. Hot Drinks
42. Ice
43. Ice Cream
44. Insomnia
45. Intimidation
46. It Doesn't Matter
47. Java
48. Kiss
49. Knives and Garrotes
50. Knuckle Buster
51. Leaving
52. Midnight Munchies
53. Mod
54. Mud Puddles
55. Muffin
56. Mystery Meat
57. Obsession
58. Old Acquaintances
59. One of Those Things
60. Pajama Party
61. Paper Airplanes
62. Past and Future
63. Peach
64. Prep Time
65. Punch
66. Pure
67. Rock and a Hard Place
68. Rose
69. Ruins
70. Running Interference
71. Salsa
72. Sarcasm
73. Scar
74. Shoes
75. Signals Crossed
76. Simple Pleasures
77. Sink or Swim
78. Sleeping
79. Slinky
80. Slug
81. Smiling
82. Smug
83. Snapshot
84. Snow
85. Stolen Moments
86. Stroll
87. Summer Haze
88. Sunlight
89. Teddy Bear
90. The Boot
91. The Look
92. Think Tank
93. Touch
94. Trapped
95. Undefeated
96. Unexpected
97. Want
98. Wreckage
99. Wrong Turn
100. Your Other Left
Originally, this was intended as set of writing prompts for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) 2009, but I leave it here in hopes it might be helpful to someone else (and for those of you who want/need it for NaNo this year, enjoy).

Probably most of you have heard of the 100 Themes Challenge - you can find them here on DA. If you write 1,000 words per theme, you will have 50,000 words once you have a halfway-complete list. If you write two 1,000-word vignettes every day, you will finish in thirty days. These 1,000 words may in turn inspire more words, which can be strung together. Or you might just leave it a series of vignettes. I call it ‘A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words’. NaNo says if you believe you’re writing a novel, they believe you’re writing a novel too, and GO FOR IT!

I cite this string of vignettes idea because of the House on Mango Street which I was made to read while in school. It was not a novel in the usual sense of the word. It was a collection of vignettes that were loosely tied together by virtue of being the memories of one character.
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I have finished all of this one, haven't posted them (poems) yet. I will soon. Thanks for the inspiration!